• primary features of the Roman calendar. Feriae ("holidays" in the sense of "holy days"; singular also feriae or dies ferialis) were either public (publicae)...
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  • Feria (redirect from Feriae)
    apart from Sunday" (English translation of the Code of Rubrics, 21); Nomine feriae intelleguntur singuli dies hebdomadis, praeter dominicam (original text...
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  • The Feriae Latinae or Latin Festival was an ancient Roman religious festival held in April on the Alban Mount. The date varied, and was determined and...
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    their oath of office in Jupiter's name, and honoured him on the annual feriae of the Capitol in September. To thank him for his help, and to secure his...
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  • Sementivae (redirect from Feriae Sementivae)
    also known as Feriae Sementivae or Sementina dies (in the country called Paganalia), was a Roman festival of sowing. It was a type of feriae conceptivae...
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    public holiday celebrated on 15 August in all of Italy. It originates from Feriae Augusti, the festival of Emperor Augustus, who made 1 August a day of rest...
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    science of religious rites and festivals is known as heortology. Festivals (feriae) were an important part of Roman religious life during both the Republican...
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  • Tentaspina feriae is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2011. It is found in Indonesia (it was described from northern...
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    Italian name of the holiday, Ferragosto, may derive from the Latin name, Feriae Augusti ("Holidays of the Emperor Augustus"), since the month of August...
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    both goddesses were honored as "mothers of produce" at the moveable feast (feriae conceptivae) of Sementivae, a festival of sowing. On December 13, the anniversary...
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    convened the senate. Among other business, he announced the date of the Feriae Latinae ("Latin Festival"), a moveable feast to be held in April and one...
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    holiday (dies feriae); on account of him then they toss wreaths into fountains and garland puteals" (Fontanalia a Fonte, quod is dies feriae eius; ab eo...
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    prohibited; NP, the meaning of which remains elusive, but which marked feriae, public holidays; QRCF (perhaps for quando rex comitiavit fas), a day when...
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    and Quirinus with the grain spelt, through the Fornacalia or Stultorum Feriae, according to Ovid's Fasti. The last day of the festival is called the Quirinalia...
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    the Kalends of March." February had one and possibly two moveable feasts (feriae conceptivae). The Amburbium ("City Circuit") was a purification of the whole...
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    "run", and "θεωρέω" (theoreō), "to look at, to see, to observe", Latin feriae "holidays", fanum "temple", and also Armenian di-k` "gods". Alternative...
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    festivals at which the hanging of oscilla took place were: The Sementivae Feriae, or sowing festivals, and the Paganalia, the country festivals of the tutelary...
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    February 27, March 14 Equirria horse races March 1 Dies natalis (birthday) and feriae of the Salian priests March 17 Agonia May 14 dies natalis, Temple of Mars...
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  • prohibited; NP, the meaning of which remains elusive, but which marked feriae, public holidays; EN for endotercissus, an archaic form of intercissus,...
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    republican era who guarded the city during the annual sacrifice of the Feriae Latinae on Mount Alban in which the consuls participated. His former title...
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    villages are recorded. The ritual of this league was the "Latin festival" (feriae Latinae), at which, on the Mount of Alba, upon a day annually appointed...
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    criminal matters. In the ancient calendar this day is marked as Nept. ludi et feriae, or Nept. ludi, from which Leonhard Schmitz (in Smith, see link) concluded...
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    prohibited; NP, the meaning of which remains elusive, but which marked feriae, public holidays; EN for endotercissus, an archaic form of intercissus,...
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    earth-goddess Tellus) was offered spelt wheat and a pregnant sow, at the movable Feriae Sementivae. This was almost certainly held before the annual sowing of grain...
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    [citation needed] "a.d. V Idus Augustas: Soli Indigeti in colle Quirinali Feriae quod eo die Gaius Caesar Gai filius Pharsali devicit" "August 9: Festival...
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    prohibited; or NP, the meaning of which remains elusive, but which marked feriae, public holidays. Days were also marked with nundinal letters in cycles...
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  • days from mid-to-late April, but exact dates are still being determined. Feriae Latinae was also held in April, with the date varying. Other ancient Roman...
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  • Christian observances The Roman calendar possessed a number of moveable feasts (feriae conceptivae, "proclaimed festivals") like the Sementivae or Paganalia honoring...
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    prohibited; NP, the meaning of which remains elusive, but which marked feriae, public holidays; QRCF (perhaps for quando rex comitiavit fas), a day when...
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  • "mere appellatives" for verbal functions. The rite was held just before the Feriae Sementivae. W.H. Roscher lists these deities among the indigitamenta, lists...
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